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CHAPTER 30

The New Millennium. CHAPTER 30. A GLOBAL NATION FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM. CREATED EQUAL JONES  WOOD  MAY  BORSTELMANN  RUIZ. A GLOBAL NATION Overview. The American Place in a Global Economy The Stewardship of Natural Resources The Expansion of American Culture Abroad

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CHAPTER 30

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  1. The New Millennium CHAPTER 30 A GLOBAL NATION FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM CREATED EQUAL JONES  WOOD  MAY  BORSTELMANN  RUIZ

  2. A GLOBAL NATION Overview • The American Place in a Global Economy • The Stewardship of Natural Resources • The Expansion of American Culture Abroad • Identity in Contemporary America

  3. THE AMERICAN PLACE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY • The Logic and Technology of Globalization • Free Trade and the Global Assembly Line • Who Benefits from Globalization?

  4. The Logic and Technology of Globalization • Computers increase American productivity • Internet, faxes, cell phones: Global communication

  5. Free Trade and the Global Assembly Line • The positives • Access to the best goods at lowest prices • Work and wages provided to developing nations • The negative views • Only the powerful, wealthy nations benefit • Environmentalists warn of pollution due to unregulated globalization • Unions decry the loss of American jobs • Human Rights activists cite grim working conditions of developing nations workers

  6. Who Benefits from Globalization? • The Stock Market and investors • American consumers pay lower prices for many products • Credit card providers

  7. THE STEWARDSHIP OF NATURAL RESOURCES • Ecological Transformation in the Twentieth Century • Pollution • Environmentalism and Its Limitations

  8. Ecological Transformation in the Twentieth Century • Population growth: 1990s America increases by 33 million • The Environment affected by • Commercial logging • Mining • Water consumption • Energy consumption

  9. Pollution • Greenhouse gases, the ozone, global warming, and the automobile • Chemical production, poisonous chemicals, heavy metals, and plastic • Nuclear waste

  10. Environmentalism and Its Limitations • A partisan view of the environment • Republican: use natural resources to produce wealth and raise the standard of living • Democratic: more sympathetic to preservation of the environment • The Americans’ view • Support of strong antipollution laws and preservation of public lands • The world’s largest consumer of energy provided mainly by fossil fuels

  11. THE EXPANSION OF AMERICAN CULTURE ABROAD • A Culture of Diversity and Entertainment • U.S. Influence Abroad Since the Cold War • Resistance to American Popular Culture

  12. A Culture of Diversity and Entertainment • Hollywood, CNN, and MTV • Individual choice, freedom of speech, and large spending habits • Sports mania

  13. U.S. Influence Abroad Since the Cold War • American culture, food, music, language, entertainment spreads throughout the world • America remains the main military superpower

  14. Resistance to American Popular Culture • The “slow food” movement in France • Nationalism: ethnic, religious, and national identities found more meaningful • Muslim fundamentalists

  15. IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA • Negotiating Multiple Identities • Social Change and Abiding Discrimination • Still an Immigrant Society

  16. Negotiating Multiple Identities • Affirmative Action and “reverse discrimination” • The blurring of the race lines and the mapping of the human genome in 2001 • The U.S. Census of 2000 and racial categories: the ability to choose more than one race

  17. Social Change and Abiding Discrimination • The desegregation of America • 1/3 of black middle class and many participate in the political arena • Black culture found throughout American arts • American women • More women work outside of the home • 1/3 of students of medical and law schools are women • 1998: 1 in 3 girls play sports in high school • Gay men and Lesbians portrayed in movies and TV; active in politics • Native Americans: increase in population of over a million

  18. Still an Immigrant Society • 1 in 10 Americans born abroad • 15% from Europe • 26% from Asia • 51% from Latin America and the Caribbean • Estimated 6 million undocumented Latino workers

  19. September 11, 2001 • Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban • Former Afghanistan fighter from Saudia Arabia, bin Laden, heads Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization of Al Qaeda • Repressive Islamic government of Afghanistan, the Taliban, host of bin Laden and al Qaeda • 9/11/01 • 2 hijacked airliners piloted by al Qaeda operatives attack the World Trade Centers resulting in their collapse • 1 hijacked airliner attacks the Pentagon • 1 hijacked airline crashes in the Pennsylvania countryside, apparently al Qaeda mission aborted by passengers • A loss of life near 3000

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